EBONI: Progress Reports

1st Quarterly Progress Report: August to October 2000

Since EBONI began on 01 August 2000:

A Project Manager, Director and Research Assistant have been appointed and begun work;

An initial Web site has been designed, implemented and launched;

The following groups have been established:

The Steering Committee;

The Management Group, which has met twice;

An Electronic Books Group, which has been set up to encourage collaboration between researchers in the ebook field at Strathclyde;

Initial contact has been made with the DNER;

Two mailing lists have been set up:

A closed list for project staff and Management and Steering Group members (eboni@jiscmail.ac.uk); and

An open list for anyone interested in the project (open-eboni@jiscmail.ac.uk);

The project plan has been drafted in full (including evaluation and dissemination strategies);

Portable ebook companies have been contacted with regard to obtaining free electronic books;

Monica and Ruth attended the ECDL 2000 conference in Lisbon where Monica delivered a paper on the importance of good design in electronic books;

Articles have been / are being written and submitted to:

the Electronic Library;

the LA Record;

the SCONUL Newsletter;

A report on the problems surrounding the definition of electronic books is being written;

The Project Team met with the Centre for Academic Practice at Strathclyde University and discussed areas of overlap and complementary research;

A survey of UK HE learning and teaching material available on the Internet is underway;

A catalogue containing the results of this survey is being compiled and will be available from the project Web site;

Monica will sit on the DNER eBook Working Group, and give a presentation at the first meeting on 15 November 2000;

Monica and Ruth will attend a DNER all projects meeting in Manchester on 16-17 November 2000.